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' . .1 IV? 8urr?uder In a recent contest sponsored by the local chapter president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy many essays were submitted upon "The Surrender of Lee," the prize* winning ones being xubmitted to The Chronicle for publication. The second and concluding essay appears herewith as the work of Miss Molly iilackwell, a, student of the Camden high school: "AVell," ftuld grand mother, as a he wet tied herself more coniXoxlabiy ?ixt the big, easy chair, "1 will do my very best to give you the story of Leu's surrender; although it in an incident which brings back sad mim ories, Now listen closely, chickens, and 1 will toil you all that was told me. "It was about sixty years ago that lien oral Lee surrendered to (Jcncral (Jrunt at Appomattox Court House and all the hopes of the South were crushed. I think a great responsibility rested on Leeds shoulders he mum 1J ,,,J"i jXi 111 cause he had to show how brave men go down to defeat while on the other hand Grant allowed how they met with victory. There la no scene which will remain in the hearts of the people, as that enacted April 11, 1865. "X: can tell you we were proud of the way Lee drank his cup of bitterness without a murmur. "Your grandfather, chicks, who was present, told me that one of the officers asked Lee what history would say to this surrender and he replied* 'Yes, 1 know they will say hard things of us; they will not understand that we were overwhelmed by numbers; bui-Uut .14 aiut Goirrnrrt;"! The question is, Is it right to sur j coder thi,i aimy? If it is right, then J will take all the responsibility.' "lie was right in the end. The surrender might have been postponed, it is true, indefinitely, hut the stand that Lee took made this impossible, lie knew there was no ue to fight longer, because our spirit, the spirit of the South, was already broken, Her people had lost heart and tht^ Army of Northern Virginia had* dwindled down to a mere handful. In the last days of his retreat from Richmond, Leo had no more than .40,000 men while Grant's forces numbered over 150,000. And then, Grant's men were fresh and in the pink of condition ' while our men were exhausted and starving. "Lee's men were desperate. Your (grandfather told me that the1 men were in such u starving condition that they would wander from the line of march in search of food. Many ate grass or leaves and marched on determined to hold out to the end. Here and there one got possession of an ear of dried corn and considered it as a three days' ration. Pasture fields where wild onions were growing were despoiled of their fruitage by famishing men. The bursting buds of the forest trees were eaten; even haystacks?when they were infrequently found?were devoured as human food for lack of anything better. "There was no other road beside that of surrender on which our army could travel. Resistance was futile; escape impossible. At last the rugged, shoeless, unfed remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia found themselves walled in by an army of blue. Lee sent his message to Grant. A meeting was arranged upon and those who were left of a once magnificent army laid down their arms to fight no more." Here grandmother hastily wiped away a tear which had gathered; then, with a plucky little smile resumed her story. "1 have always admired Grant for (he way lie acted about the victory of his army. Instead of being domineering, ho acted in a manner which .befitted a true gentleman and soldier. Ho permitted no demonstrations of any kind on the part of the victorious army. When he knew that our men were starving he fed them. He allowed them to keep their firearms and horses. "When IjOv left the McClean house where the treaties had been signed he mounted Traveler, his horse, and rode slowly toward our army. The men were grouped about the hills. Their j last hopes had been blasted. Their | abasement was complete. They were weary, footsore, ill; exhausted in I mind, bydy and spirit. Yet when they | saw ' their old commander on his familiar gray horse all these things were forgotten. Only their love for him. a love founded on perfect confidence and respect, was remembered. In an instant they were about him, bareheaded, with tear-wet faces; thronging him, kissing his hands, his boots, his saddle; weeping; cheering him amid their tears, shouting his name to the very skieS. "When order was restored Lee said, 'Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done my best j for you. My heart is too. full to say ! more.' " j With this grandmother, who had been staring in the fire, looked up. "That is all," she said, "Now run got in hisl. chicks, and think no more about it." (?."> Accidents Last Month j t'oiumbia, May III.?According to | reports received by the state highway department there were 65 accidents , iii'i ui ring on state highways in April. | Seven persons were killed, LI were j severely injured and I" received I minor injuries. There were 17 collisions between j motor ears, one of them being parked ---four with other vehicles, and ten j w.ith other objects. I Twenty-three cars were overturned, j IS weie driven off road, 49 were seri ously damaged, 16 were lightly damt aged, and one other vehicle was dam; aged. There weir two accidents at rad way grade crossings, two at public load crossings, and two on or at ; bridge*. Tbirty-thlee of the accidents occurred m the daytime and .".'J after dark. Furtyeight were on straight road-. ir. on curves, live on paved r<>ads and o'J on unpaved roads. Death of Little Ray Drakeford Ka\ Columbus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kit bard Bryan Drakeford, of Cantcy i Hill, aged one year and nine months, I died on Friday of last week. He was i | sick only a very few days. The burial \ took place on Saturday morning at ! the family burying ground. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOT ICR All parties indebted to the estate of Mrs. Sallie Nunnery are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, havI ing claims against the said estate will present them duly attested within the time prescribed by law. A. L. McLFX)I). Administrator. Camden, S. C., May 20, 1926. '!' . """ FISH MIGRATIONS fussle Helwtltta Who Study thf Habits of Pinny Tribe*. Two fish mysteries'were mentioned recently in The Daily Mai), one the problem of where herrings go in winter, the other a point that has always puzzled salmon angleh^namely, why fish will take a fly grimily one day while on the next, or for many days afterwards, they cannot he persuaded to look at any kind of ore, writes a naturalist in the London Daily Mail. Fish history is Indeed full of puzzles, many of which seem beyond solution. Why, for instance, is it that urbpt always wear their eyes upon '.he left side of their head, while soles nvariably have them upon the right'/ j Flounders, however, while they j usually have their eyes on the right, occasionally wear tifam on the left, . The migrations of fish prevent many puzzles. Shoals of herrings come into the North Sea from the Atlantic and swim southwards until apparently they vanish. At any rata they are not caught beyond a certain point. It has beerj#*fl(uggeste<i that the reason why they are no longer netted is simply that they sink to greater depths because they do not iike the sun-warmed surface water. All over the seas of the world great ! shoals of fish migrate, and some with clock-like regularity. One such' swarm of fish forms the occasion of' urv annual holiday and feast at; Samoa. The fish is not unlike white-; bait, and each year vast numbers ar- | rive at the island on the same day in 1 the montji of October, remain for a day or at most two days, and then - I ,i - , I p?I ----vanish, not to be seen again until tha name date in the following year. To return to salmon, why is it that the salmon of the Great Northwest never return from their up-river J spawning expeditions? , From the moment u spawning salmon enters the Columbia, the Fraser, or ar.y of the rivers furiously upwards, and no { salmon, great or small, ever heads j down stream unless hunted or fright-, ened. All these splendid fish, once) their mission is accomplished and their eggs laid and fertilised, die die in such millions that the banks are poisoned for miles with the j stench of their rotting carcasses. : fOven the common brown trout offe/s u puzzle to every angler. Over and over again 1 have caught good trout in Scottish mountain burns which were cut off from other stretches of the river by falls far too high for any fiah to negotiate. Only last August I took several fine fish in a deep pool between two twentyfoot falls. A trout can come down a fell, but it cannot go up. Yet, in order to spawn, a trout must visit the headwaters of its stream. How then do trout not only live but ever multiply between falls? Leavea Money to Sons Spartanburg, Muy 20.-AccordiiiK to the will probated today all the property of Jesse F. Cleveland, who died recently, was left to his four sons, John Z., Robert B., Arthur F., and Conrad J\ Cleveland, all of this city. The estate is roughly estimated to be worth $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. Harmonicas for the Eskimos were taken North recently by members of a polar expedition. The BULL'S EYE 'Editor and Qentra/Manaqtr WILL ROOIRJ * Another" Bull" Durham ad ver|) llicmtnl by WMI Kogara, Zlag- II II l?ld KollltiMd icrMn fUr,ind | ' | landing American humorist. I j Morecoming. Witdllortbeffl. J* No Governorship For Mine My good old friend the Governor of Oklahoma was in to sec mc at the theatre the other night. I had just had humorous mention as a candidate for that position, as i they wanted to revive the Populist Party with mc as the Standard Bearer. Well, the Governor showed mfe what had happened to a friend of his who had been defeated for Governor in our state, so he discouraged mc. I won't accuse him of doing it j purposely, but he did. His friend's campaign expenditures were as follows : "I kissed 6,000 babies; helped 42 voters thrash wheat; shook hands with the entire State; smoked 3,000 sacks of 'Bull' Durham; cut 22 cords of wood ; helped brand 8,000 calves; spayed 4,000 of them; was 'j sprinkled 8 times in Methodist Churches; totally immersed in cold water in muddy creeks three times by the Baptist; went to confession in every Catholic Town; paid dues to 1 1 Synagogues; charter member of the Holy-Rollers; listened to 800 get-together Kiawanis, Lions, and Rotary speeches; bought sheet and pillow slip in every Ku Klux Klan in the State; and then I was defeated. " 'Bull' Durham was my sole satisfaction not only during, but after-election. It is the only thing that stayed with inc." ]\S. There will he another piece in this paper soon. L.ook (ur it. "Bull Durham ^ Guaranteed by itiNKMMfaa Hi Kiu? 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